Chinese oral today - and there was no mention of any angsana tree. That's cus last night, while chatting on the phone with nai nai, we were talking about my orals the next day, and she suddenly asked me if I knew what "angsana tree" was in Chinese. She probably got that idea because she wanted me to watch the 华文？谁怕谁！on Channel 8 on Sunday (probably because she knew my Chinese was the canoot-make-it type and thought watching it would help spark some interest) but I was out at town until quite late with my family. As expected, I was clueless. Like, the last time I said "angsana tree" must have been at least 6 years ago for science. Then again, that was the English version. 3 seconds after she told me the answer, I had already forgotten what the Chinese name for "angsana tree" was, but of course, I didn't tell her or else I'd get a long lecture. Therefore, thankfully, no angsana tree.

Panic is contagious. Seeing Vivienne panic the whole morning inevitably made me scared. I had to occassionally confiscate her practice materials. But in the waiting room, it was my turn to panic. It didn't help when someone left the examination room crying while I was sitting outside. The passage was quite easy, and most of the harder words were easy to pronounce because I'd seen them being used in church countless times. The conversation was based on 整容 - plastic surgery. At first I thought it meant something like facial, but I managed to steer myself to the correct direction in time. The bad thing was that whatever most people studied (blogs, internet, strawberry generation, olympics, environmental conversation) didn't come out at all. Even the words I checked up from the past 10 years (times 10 days) of passages didn't appear. Therefore, in conclusion, studying for oral only helps to calm your nerves. Other than that, don't expect too much out of studying. Anyway, what's done is done.

As a "celebration", went to macs with zeng xi, ariela and hui lin - the bridge-addicts. Played a few rounds of bridge before going home. The "lunch" at 5pm left me not hungry for dinner.